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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd S. YIII. Aug. 13. '50. 



Mandevile of Myrades. Introducing a wonderful 

 story, the ■writer says, " •where taking a toy in his 

 head." 



I know not whether these Notes may be of any 

 use to the Philological Society. S. S. S. 



Basingstoke Reckonings. — Is this worth the 

 noting? 



" Mr. Seargeant Harris said, * These merchants' books 

 are like Aaron's rod, ever budding, and like Basingstoak 

 Keckonings : over night. Five Shillings Sixpence ; if you 

 pay it not it is grown in the morning to a just Noble.' " 

 — Megalopsyey, 1682. 



G. H. K. 



Sir Joshua Reynolds s House in Leicester Square. 

 — In the new edition of the Town, ^-c, by Leigh 

 Hunt, dated October, 1858, occurs the following 

 at p. 353. : — 



" Sir Joshua's house in Leicester Square was on the 

 eastern side, four doors from Sydney's Alley." 



And at the foot of the page is the following 

 note: — 



" * The house was, probably, on the site now occupied 

 by the south-east corner of New Coventry Street." 



Both text and note are strangely inaccurate; 

 for it is well known that Sir Joshua Reynolds 

 lived at No. 47., on the west side of the square, 

 from 1761 till his death in 1792. The house re- 

 mains, and has lately been entered upon by Messrs. 

 Puttick & Simpson, the well-known book-auc- 

 tioneers. How vexatiously such mistatements as 

 the above unsettle localities, and disturb pleasant 

 associations ! Leigh Hunt's Town is a charming 

 book of gossip, but lacking accurate identification 

 of localities, &c. ; and, unfortunately, this new 

 edition has been annotated by a less scrupulous 

 hand than that of the author himself. T. (1.) 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL aUERIES. 



Some time ago I dug out of the neglected dust 

 of a provincial bookshop a copy of the Vulgate 

 edition of the Scriptures. I am desirous to know 

 what is the comparative rarity of it. I append a 

 note of its salient features, which will enable some 

 of your learned contributors to enlighten my ig- 

 norance. Living in a country district, I have no 

 access to likely sources of information, nor to the 

 Bibl. Sussex., or Lea Wilson's Catalogiie, and 

 therefore fly to " N. & Q.," the ready friend of 

 the ignorant. 



The volume commences with part of the 5th 

 section to the " Prologus in Bibliam" (sigs. A 1. 

 A 2. being absent), which appears to be an Epistle 

 of Jerome to (Bishop) Paulinus. Each Book of 

 the Old Testament, except Judges, Ruth, Nehe- 

 miah, and 2 and 3 Esdras, has one or in some in- 

 stances two Prologues of St. Jerome preceding it. 



The New Testament commences with an Epistle 

 of Jerome to Damasus. Each of the Gospels is 

 preceded by a Reglstrum showing the contents of 

 each chapter. The whole of the Epistles of St. 

 Paul follow the Gospels ; then Acts, the Canonical 

 Epistles, and the Apocalypse. At the end of the 

 New Testament is a metrical Ordo of the Books 

 in both Testaments. And following it are some, 

 verses in praise of the work : appended is the date 

 1482. Bound up with it is a list of passages 

 marked as suitable to particular Occasions, and 

 scripture proofs. The volume concludes with In- 

 terpretations of the Hebrew Names complete to 

 " Thaassar." The volume is of large 4to. size, 

 printed in double columns of forty-seven lines in 

 excellent preservation. The initial letters are all 

 rubricated, and first letter in Gen. i. ornamented 

 with colour. 



The same question as to the work of Martinus 

 de Temperantia, imprinted at Paris by Wolfgang 

 Hoppyl, 1490 ? 



Where can I find a list of the works of Bona- 

 venture ? I have his Itinerarius Mentis in Deum ; 

 Tractatus Lignum Vitm; and the Centiloquium. 

 Judging from the signatures, these are parts of a 

 larger work, of late years separately put into paper 

 covers. The initials are rubricated, and the minor 

 ones patched with yellow. The volumes are well 

 printed in black-letter, very contracted Latin. 

 One of the portions is stated to have been finished 

 by Bonaventure in the year 1484, on the vigil of 

 St. Peter and St. Paul. J. C. G. L. 



" THEN PUSH ABOUT THE FLOWING BOWL. 



I send you the following song, requesting the 

 favour of any particulars concerning it that may 

 be known. When I first came in possession of 

 the words, I was told it was one of Tom Moore's 

 " unpublished" Melodies. If such is really the 

 case, its publication in your pages will be valuable. 



Its peculiar wildness of words and music, which 

 by the way is entirely in a minor key, has given 

 it to. me a double interest. And I should feel 

 indebted to any of your correspondents who would 

 give me any information about the song, its au- 

 thor or composer. 



" Then push about the flowing bowl, 

 And broach the foaming ale. 

 And let the merry merry maidens sing, 

 The beldame tell her tale. 



" And let the sightless harper sit 

 The blazing faggot by : 

 And let the jester vent his wit, 

 His tricks the urchin try. 



Then push about, &c. 



" Who knocks so loud with angry din. 

 And would admitted be? 

 No gossip lingers here within, 

 We'll find no place for thee. 



Then push about, &c. 



